Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA3 on 5 February 2007 at 22:00 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 22:00 on Monday 5 February 2007. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2007
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21746, longitude -2.48306, in the BA3 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007520017876
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
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The nearest, 98 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1998.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2007520017876 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Somerset road accident statistics for 2007.